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<td class="v">4:1</td>
<td>But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.</td>
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<td class="v">4:2</td>
<td>And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.</td>
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<td class="v">4:3</td>
<td>Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.</td>
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<td class="v">4:4</td>
<td>Then said the LORD, Doest thou well to be angry?</td>
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<td class="v">4:5</td>
<td>So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.</td>
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<td class="v">4:6</td>
<td>And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.</td>
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<td class="v">4:7</td>
<td>But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.</td>
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<td class="v">4:8</td>
<td>And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.</td>
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<td class="v">4:9</td>
<td>And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.</td>
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<td class="v">4:10</td>
<td>Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:</td>
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<td class="v">4:11</td>
<td>And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?</td>
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